The Weight of their Voices Echo in the Black Sand

18th February - 18th May 2013Ephemeral Public Art Gallery Subiaco WA

"Artist Olga Cironis says the use of feathers represents the connection to earth and sky, and the fragility of life and rituals that connect us to the past...The Weight of their Voices Echo in the Black Sand is inspired by a story about a piano that arrived on a ship from England in the early 1800s. On arrival, the wooden piano was picked up and carried inland by the European settlers, for hours over difficult windswept Western Australian sand dunes, away from the encroaching sea. Some believe it was the same piano that Dom Salvado played in Subiaco to raise money for New Norcia..."(Source: City of Subiaco Media Release http://www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/Your-council/News-and-media/Media-releases/2013/February/A-flurry-of-feathers-to-create-newest-public-a-%281%29)